On Sat, 18 Jul 2020, William Morder via trinity-users wrote:

> I also hope never to say the words "run Windoze" ever again.
>
> ;-)
>
> However, I can see where it is sometimes useful to be able to run it for some
> limited purposes, and confining its evils to a virtual box would probably be
> my choice, as well, if somebody is pointing a gun at my head, or I find
> myself caught in some such predicament.

I have a set-up here where I play internet tv on the laptop and feed 
it to a tv for us to watch.

I have trouble getting RandR to behave and if I'm not careful, I end 
up with a discolored and wrong-sized screen on the laptop. Windows 
does a satisfactory job without hassle.

in the past the university was sure to work with Windows but less so 
with Linux though I noticed in the last yrs I was there sometimes 
Linux was better on their presentation machines and such.

> Note that I never started out to be a Linux crusader, nor did I think much
> about the implications of "proprietary" software. It was only when I couldn't
> get my machines to do what I wanted (things that they used to do without
> complaint); then I started doing some research, which eventually led me to
> Linux, then GNU/Linux free/libre, Richard Stallman, et al. The same with
> systemd versus init: systemd messed up my system, that's why I didn't like
> it. Later came the philosophy and politics of computers and software, and all
> that other stuff.

my history is a bit a mix of yours and other motives. I started out 
with MSDOS, then a non-MS variant of DOS (4DOS?), then Desqview, then 
OS/2, then RedHat. I wanted to avoid MS entanglement. (never 
even contemplated Apple.) MS felt too intrusive and the aesthetics 
was distasteful. not that IBM is so great but OS/2 had a bit more a 
sense you are not wards of the corporation, you had a somewhat freer 
hand or so it felt to me then.

but yes, I liked the 'free/libre' motif also and privacy concerns. I 
shifted from OS/2 because of some installation issues and out of 
curiosity about Linux.

fjd


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Felmon Davis

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